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Amrita Marino

The Sunday Times, January 21 2018, 12:01am

Jeremy Clarkson gets plucked at Grayshott Health Spa

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The final hangover from last year was still coursing through my head when I arrived with a face the colour of a motor torpedo boat at the Grayshott health farm, which is located in the part of Surrey the ashamed locals call the Surrey-Hampshire borders. This is not the sort of spa, we are told, where hen-nighters spend all day in a whirlpool bath giggling about anal bleaching. It’s billed as a “medical” spa, and it’s owned by the Lanserhof group, where Germans and Austrians go to follow a strict regime of fasting and doing star jumps. And picking up divorcees.

The place is full of people from north London, who are mostly on a week-long course…

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